BitMEX traders set a new record today, trading over 1,000,000 XBT in just 24 hours. At 0:42 UTC today, the public stats endpoint showed a total of 1,001,000 XBT, peaking at 1,041,748 XBT three hours later.

In USD terms, this was just over $8B. This is an industry record both in Bitcoin and USD terms. Thank you to all our staff and traders for helping us set this historic milestone!

Over the past month we have made some significant performance improvements to the BitMEX trading engine, increasing the overall capacity of the platform and reducing System Overload responses. We will soon be publishing the second part in our series on BitMEX’s growth and how we are scaling which will detail the recent improvements we have made, and what we’re currently working on. You can find part one here.

As a result of the increased capacity and due to popular demand, we will be listing the BitMEX EOS Token / Bitcoin 29 June 2018 futures contract, EOSM18, on or before 7 June 2018 07:00 UTC.

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BitMEX and the mobile apps issued under BMEX are wholly owned and operated by HDR Global Trading Limited, a Republic of Seychelles incorporated entity or its relevant authorized affiliates.